Three keys to engaging successfully on #mastodon 1) Adhere to every #jot and #tittle of #leftist #orthodoxy. The #echochamber will #welcome you with #openarms. The more #outrage the better! 2) Post as many #catphotos as you unreasonably can. 3) Become #obsessed with and #comment on every word and deed of one #ElonMusk. Do all three and watch your #follower count rise.

I vote #democratic but I am not a #progressive. I know that puts me in the #minority on #mastodon. I read #toots about how friendly and welcoming it is here. But I have found that if you do not check all the boxes of progressive #orthodoxy, you may be subject to having your integrity questioned, your points scoffed at, and the other opinion still forced on you even after you offer to “agree to disagree.” It’s not everyone, certainly, but it’s enough to make me consider whether I belong here.

Papal Infallibility: "The Heresy Above All Heresies" - St. Justin Popovich
#Orthodoxy
excerpted from "After 1,000 Years - An Orthodox Examination of Catholicism" by Fr. Peter Heers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTjQtZsWWq0

How do we preach the gospel of Jesus Christ as good news, as news that converts, liberates, and deifies sinners?

https://afkimel.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/preaching-apokatastasis.pdf

#Theology #Hermeneutics #Gospel #Bible #Christianity #Orthodoxy

A quotation from Hand, Learned:

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A wise man once said, “Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.”
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/hand-learned/61148/

#quote #quotes #quotation #conformity #convention #orthodoxy #protection #weakness

a pleasant change from the usual orthodox stance of anybody to the left of anarcho capitalism being accused of personally murdering a tsar https://publicorthodoxy.org/2023/06/09/orthodoxy-and-anarcho-socialism/ #orthodoxy #socialism

Transhumanism and the Incarnation of Christ (If You Eliminate Suffering There is No Salvation)
#Orthodoxy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGwJRiEvSGw

A Primer on the Nicene Creed
#Orthodoxy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLVJbcvOFz8

Did Jesus rise from the dead?

Happy Palm Sunday Orthodox fam and Easter for all others☦️! What a fantastic interview for Christians, atheists, anyone curious in the resurrection. We should be reminded that Easter’s symbolism stems from the real, physical event of Jesus dying…and then coming back in a unique way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/opinion/jesus-rise-from-the-dead-easter.html?unlocked_article_code=4V2lar6cnpOzIJMgk7txay9y-bNdhRQJw_JO0guQNw7zi8nAII8wFwtHejT57_w9PL81n3-ohrJao3V9LuC9Jr43_uPWx67xuRdOuhhqTgpI5_Q4IryoqcL7zXgRQ55dvzfAlP_vfUh6DONGdfBMbRA1NBE8xx2yvP_To5ESItJCFAxBzKnwLyRTzpJdVd7quWw2K5iGan4K3NU7i2SHsNWMERqFp3wxgilY71h50wrP2tXC2bkxhr8Va8F7AqMTYt-Q4i0gPaoDQUv0JLuyfGCozEK2FxOu5SXVi6diI4ExY50Ktm2xbgOFx2mgNMpImcrk2p-uHYeFz0LRx1CAh2M4tMVIsMwHw5A&smid=url-share
#Easter #PalmSunday #HolyWeek #Christianity #Resurrection #Orthodoxy

"The spiritual head of the world’s #Orthodox #Christians said on Wednesday that Russia’s powerful Orthodox church shared responsibility for the conflict in #Ukraine but that he stood ready to help in Russia’s postwar “spiritual regeneration”.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s comments are a rebuke for #Russian Patriarch #Kirill, whose vocal support for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine has splintered the worldwide Orthodox church.

Bartholomew, who in 2019 infuriated Moscow by recognising the newly established Orthodox church of Ukraine, said Russian authorities were using the church as an “instrument for their strategic objectives”.

“The church and the state leadership in #Russia cooperated in the crime of aggression and shared the responsibility for the resulting crimes, like the shocking abduction of the Ukrainian children,” Reuters report he told a conference held in Lithuania’s parliament."

(Guardian Liveblog, 14.19 GMT 22. March 2023)

#Religion #Orthodoxy #Ukraine #Russia

@bodhidave

#Orthopraxy is very much a focal point in most #Jewish communities, rather than #orthodoxy. (I realize that "Orthodox" is the name of one of the major Jewish movements in North America. This is confusing, but that sometimes happens as categorical terms emerge.)

As I see it, both orthopraxy and orthodoxy have potential pitfalls.

@compassion @kindness @ethics @religion @religiousstudies @theologidons @theology @conductoflife

This headline is misleading. To say #Ukraine is acting against #Orthodoxy is like to say criticism of the #Reichskirche was against the #EvangelicalChurch. The #MoscowPatriarchate is acting as an arm of 🇷🇺; there is a legit, independent 🇺🇦 #Orthodox branch. https://www.jpost.com/christianworld/article-734138

Something I'm finding hard to comprehend are the feast days during Great Lent. When a feast and strict fasting coincide on the calendar, wat do? #Orthodoxy #OrthodoxChristianity

“Anyone who challenges the prevailing #orthodoxy finds himself #silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable #opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the #popular #press or in the #highbrow #periodicals.

— #GeorgeOrwell, “#FreedomOfThePress”

#bible #orthodoxy #compassion

A quotation from Swift, Jonathan:

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I believe that thousands of men would be orthodox enough in certain points, if divines had not been too curious, or too narrow, in reducing orthodoxy within the compass of subtleties, niceties, and distinctions, with little warrant from Scripture, and less from reason or good policy.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/swift-jonathan/58658/

#quote #quotes #quotation #Christianity #orthodoxy #religion #strictness #theology #trivia

""Variability & transparency fuel evolution - genome, society, economy need constant mutations for growth. Transparency enables selection of best variations." https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/01/heretical-thoughts-on-orthodoxies.html #Evolution #Transparency #Variability #Orthodoxy

St. Michael the Archangel parish in Huntsville, Alabama, is a Serbian Orthodox church with services conducted in English. While it does not look very magnificent on the outside, it’s a complete Orthodox environment inside.

The original photo didn't quite look this way. But post-processing in the DistressedFX app helped accentuate a stormy sky and contrast the gold cross, illuminated by a setting summer sun, with the background.

#Orthodox #Orthodoxy #mastoart

#Moscow #Orthodoxy

By Denis Zilber. #RussiaIsATerroristState #Warcrimes #Ukraine

Merry #Christmas to my #Armenian family and friends who celebrate it in the #Orthodox tradition today (or tomorrow on the 7th, in line with the rest of #Orthodoxy)!

Have a great time! 😁❤🎄❄x

Շնորհավոր Սուրբ Ծնունդ!

#Armenia #ՇնորհավորՍուրբԾնունդ

#ArmenianChristmas #orthodoxchristmas #orthodoxchurch